.:. Simplicity of life .:.
Shooting at the range, not at the targets but for the stars.
This quote came to me as I was sitting in the dark in the middle of the nite at the range. The nite sky was littered with stars, a true sight to behold.
The thing about entering NS, being in tekong for 5 out of 7 days of the week, and only having one whole 24 hours where you actually wun hv to see the island, is tat it really makes you learn to appreciate things alot more than usual. There's nothing better to start a day in tekong than to march to the cookhouse to have four slices of bread with thick layer of kaya on it, shiokness.
I recently pasted photos on my locker mirror, so now everytime I open my locker, I see pictures of my luv ones and friends. After a very tiring activity, feeling fatigue and all, with your singlet totally drenched in a combination of 90% water n 10% sweat, then you see the smiling faces upon the mirror. Somehow it never fails to bring a smile upon my face as I recall upon those wonderful memory I shared with these people. Normally at home, given the luxury of time, I dun even print out photos, much less look at em. But then now, I sort of depend on the photos for my spiritual balance, to keep me happy and in contact with the outside world. So much so that now I have to habit always having one last look at the photos before I lock the locker and dash out of the bunk. It just makes me happier tat way.
Tekong, being hotter than Singapore mainland, really makes one crave for rain or jus clouds sometimes. Apart from the fact tat PT gets cancelled when there is rain, the cooling effect rain has is real subtly soothing to the body. I can jus sit down in the bunk, look at the rain drops comedown and the wind slowly blowing thru my body. Even if i am in the rain, its still as refreshing as compared to be being in the hot sun.
With 1/8 of my week not having to be in contact with tekong at all, outings with friends are really impt to me now. There's nothing like having an outing to look forward to (even without knowing what we are gonna do) to motivate me thru the whole week. And even thou the outing timings are usually quite short, not stretching for more than 4-5 hours each session, it dosen't feel any shorter than when i get to meet up with GOF during my hols. Smsing friends 1 or 2 messages a day is simply not as satisfying as being to meet up physically with them and enjoy their company. Not onli my friends, I now also treasure time with my family alot more (as mentioned in my after confinement post). Being able to have dinner with them daily, as compared to now onli for 2 days is a huge disparity that I am dealing with. I even specially woke up early just to have bfast with them and then return to sleep after they left home, just to spend more time with them.
So I'm guessing thats one of the benefis of NS ba, learning to appreciate things one use to take for granted in the past.
On a sidenote, I jus want to comment how it is impossible for me to think about life when I am in NS. At home, I can jus sit there and stone in the nite, and a random tot about life will jus fly past my head. But in NS, with like hours and hours of rest time in bunk, nohing to do and bunkmates sleeping, I can jus sit there and stone, literally stone for hours not doing anything. The thoughts just dun flow thru my head, I dunnoe if I am too tired to think or dun bother. Say for this week, I was supposed to think bout whether I wan to accept NUS-Science as my uni choice, but given the ample rest time in the first few days, I jus couldn't give it much tot, dunnoe why also. Maybe its cos its not nite time? But either ways, it ain't condusive for thinking about deeper things.
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